B cells were first characterized in the 1960s and early 1970s, when Max Cooper and Robert Good showed that surgical removal of the bursa of Fabricius (a primary immune organ in birds) rendered ...

In hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the capacity to mount a functional virus-specific T-cell response has long been considered the principal, if not the sole, immunological determinant of viral ...

Kobe University neurologist CHIHARA Norio discovered how a known treatment against neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, an autoimmune disease, works: The treatment, which blinds immune cells to ...